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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
Look beyond the United States and Great Britain and you are likely to find networks of companies — ranging from Latin America’s grupos to India’s business houses to Japan’s keiretsu — that are integral parts of the global economy. For HBS... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
faced another life-and-death experience when she was struck as a pedestrian by a car whose driver had fallen asleep. She lost both legs and today uses a wheelchair for mobility. "Bashert," she says, using the Yiddish word for destiny. "I was in front of the View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
as a wood workshop in the small town of Billund, Denmark. Carpenter Ole Kirk Kristiansen eventually shifted the business from making houses and furniture to crafting wooden toys. He based the name of his new venture on "leg godt," the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
Malaysia, I moved into a new house my husband and I had built based on Feng shui principles. I immediately became pregnant with my daughter. I concluded that my earlier problems had been caused by bad Feng shui. That began my lifelong... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Back to School
months I was teaching Algebra I at Spingarn Senior High, a school situated among several housing projects in Northeast Washington. My three classes are composed entirely of repeaters, students who have failed the class before. Challenges... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
gender and racial barriers (“crashing through the glass ceiling and the ‘concrete wall,'” as the New York Times put it) when she was named president of Maxwell House in 1994. Three years later, she became president of Kraft Foods' $5... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
That’s the Kaphar effect. It’s also a picture of vertical integration, as Price, the MBA of the partnership, explains: The manufacturing is the creativity. Four apartments provide affordable housing for artists and generate income while... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
Frank Spencer (MBA 1986) helped to build his first Habitat for Humanity house in 1988. It was in the Belmont neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, and, like many Habitat homes, was constructed over approximately 10 weeks, with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
Stacey Abrams didn’t dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Her first small business was a consultancy that she launched out of necessity to supplement her salary as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998)... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
The daughter of teenage parents, Kim Lew (MBA 1992) grew up in public housing in Harlem and the Bronx. Her father, a Chinese immigrant, worked in the mailroom of AT&T, where the CEO was a graduate of Penn’s Wharton School of Business. Lew... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Dean Clark on the New Academic Year
when it opens early next year. Plans are also on the drawing board for new facilities to house lifelong learning activities and academic activities related to faculty development and for an academic center and a major renovation of Baker... View Details
- 21 May 2016
- News
The Age of Consignment
article highlights the efforts of online fashion resellers Material Wrld, founded by Rie Yano and Jie Zheng (both MBA 2010), and thredUP, founded by Christopher Homer and James Reinhart (both MBA 2009) as well as gadget collector Gazelle, cofounded by Israel Ganot (MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Spring Reunions
Dean Jay Light ( right) entertained alumni in the Dean’s House garden. Sectionmates forever! Photos by Neal Hamberg At last June’s reunions, if you had a nickel for every time someone said “It’s great to see you again!” you’d have a tidy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
“This has to be a shared mission,” Obama told attendees at the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford University, where he signed the order onstage. “So much of our computer networks and critical... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
An Advocate for Women's Equality
established the groundbreaking Task Force on Women's Rights and Responsibilities. That body's recommendations, included in its "A Matter of Simple Justice" report, was a blueprint for working toward gender equality in the White House and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Business Ethics Fellow Honored
A September dinner at the Dean's House honored HBS assistant professor Ashish Nanda, the 1999-2000 Henry B. Arthur Fellow. Henry ("Hank") Arthur was a distinguished member of the HBS faculty for ten years and is known for his innovative... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
boards to advising the White House Business Council. Which means that he has spent a lot of time speaking with leaders in both business and government about the factors that are driving their organizations’ strategy. Over the last several... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
sometimes build my own. Just about anything can be boiled down to a two-by-two.” Weekend retreat: The Chesapeake Bay. “My wife and I bought a river house and then a boat, so we’re having fun—learning river life, if you will. Our three... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
city’s South Side through 1871, BLUE1647 (a technology skills center), and a $30 million startup fund for neighborhood businesses, among other efforts. “I have one goal,” he said. “If a child walking out of his house looks at the city... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
provide housing and practical education for orphaned and at-risk boys. Outward Bound’s influence on the island began with when it launched its first adventure learning and character development programming in the mid-1970s. The island... View Details